The North Carolina General Assembly is in desperate need of a new chair
The one in the Senate Rules Committee is broken.
I reckon we should have been more specific when we wrote letters and made calls demanding HB 111 be freed from the Finance Committee. Instead of getting a vote, it has been referred to the Commerce Committee – and there it will die.
One man, one RINO has done this dirty deed – Senator Tom Apodaca
GrassRoots NC has all the details:
Senator Doug Berger … attempted a discharge petition to force HB 111 out of the Finance Committee for a vote on the floor of the NC Senate. Bravo! But, wait! Senator Apodaca (delivering on his angry words to a member) will have none of that and has pulled a procedural trick to block this. By re-referring it to the Commerce Committee, Apodaca resets the clock on HB 111 and it cannot be brought out via a discharge petition for at least 10 days. This move essentially assures that the clock will run out on HB 111, effectively thumbing his nose at your wishes.
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Apodaca had some choice words for gun owners in North Carolina, GRNC President Paul Valone, and GRNC in general. In addition to his berating of GRNC and gun owners, his main message was this: HB 111 is a dead issue now and will NOT see a vote on the Senate floor!
In other words, Apodaca has his panties in a wad because so many of his constituents, the people he works for, the people that put him in his current job have dared to speak up and bother him with opposing opinion. Oh! the audacity we have; to demand that our hired hands actually do what we say! So, Apodaca is teaching us a lesson. We wanted HB 111 out of the Finance Committee so now it’s out – and in another committee to die. Now we should please shut up and leave him alone now, lest he pull another dirty trick.
I dont think so.
While Senator Apodaca’s memory is questionable concerning the history of HB 111, we feel it is necessary to remind gun owners in North Carolina that it was HIS actions, along with the actions of other Republican Senate leaders that caused this. All they had to do was bring it out for a vote and they had the perfect chance in the Senate Judiciary II Committee. Now Senator Apodaca plans to run the clock on your safety. Are you going to let him get away with this?
My Recent Posts about HB 111
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June 19th, 2012 under Uncategorized.